"You gotta face the ghosts." More poignant advice the Reverend John Leaf had yet to hear for dealing with his haunted past. A man of God now, he'd done things that would shame the devil himself, not the least of which was loving–and leaving–Abbie Windsor, a woman of true grit and uncommon courage, a woman who could make him whole...! Abbie Windsor had weathered dark days with only the steel of her will for cold comfort. Yet today John Leaf–who'd awakened her womanhood, who'd given her a daughter–offered her his protection. But could she accept a marriage in name only to the man who shared her soul?